@mitchwagner Are you blogging on Tumblr now?
@fahrni For links and found media, yes. It seems to be the best platform for that kind of thing.
I’ve had a tumblr account for years.
@MitchWagner I have too darned many blogging/blogging like accounts, including Tumblr and Micro.blog.
I switched back to my self hosted WordPress blog for blog posts recently.
@fahrni I’ve been messing around with how I post to blogging and social media for the past few months – even more than I usually do, which is constantly.
About a month or two ago I went to wordpress.com for all blogging, because wordpress supports Oembed and micro.blog does not. But I also distribute the blog as a newsletter, and the newsletter does not support Oembed, so that did not work out.
The current iteration, arrived at literally this week, is Tumblr and Reddit for links and found media – the found media comes almost exclusively from those two platforms, so why not? And wordpress.com for longer posts.
I may move the longer posts back to micro.blog because I like the work @manton is doing and want to support it. And also because I used micro.blog through most of 2020.
I also post to Twitter and to a Facebook group, which has me as the only person authorized to post. I use Buffer to space those posts out over time. And I use the queue in Tumblr to do the same on Tumblr.
@MitchWagner I definitely want to see MB succeed. I really appreciate all that Manton has done for the blogging community.
I love hearing about others setups. I’ve toyed with many different systems but I keep returning to WordPress because it’s easy to self host. The only downside I see with it is lack of static publishing.
I’d love to see a simplified, blogging focused, UI dropped on top of the WordPress engine and output static HTML. 👍🏼
@fahrni I’m using wordpress.com now because I have had problems with self-hosting in the past and it is not something I want to work on right now.
Yes to a simplified blogging interface on top of wordpress.
I had high hopes when wordpress acquired Tumblr Dash extremely and they have been disappointed. As far as I can see WordPress has done nothing with Tumblr except keep it running. Which is I guess a big deal for the community invested in Tumblr – I certainly would’ve been happy if someone had done the same with Google+. But I had hoped that Tumblr would become world-class blogging platform.